When it comes to PowerShell and Office 365 one thing is for sure, change is constant. Nothing can be more revealing that looking at some of the new cmdlets that are appearing in the various workloads for Office 365. For this article, we are covering a series of cmdlets that were released on Jan. 16,…
Category: Exchange
Microsoft Exchange Server
GDPR and Secure Score
What a great way to start off the new year…. an article on Office 365 and new regulations coming before mid-year 2018. For my past two blog articles I’ve covered quite a bit of details on what Secure Score can offer you and your Office 365 tenant. What I wanted to do for this article…
Keeping Exchange 2016 Up to Date – .NET Ramifications
Update – 2/15/2018 There may be a change in the way that Microsoft will support upgrades from older CU’s to the latest CU of Exchange 2013 or 2016. If we review the Exchange Server Supportability Matrix we see that in the .NET section, there is this note: “When upgrading Exchange from an unsupported CU to…
Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) Hangs on ‘Adding Federated Domain’
During a migration with a client we ran the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, as is a usual process for a migration, we ran into an issue. The HCW validating the domain, using the required TXT record, and while federating the domain, the wizard got stuck on ‘Adding Federated Domain’, like so:
Exchange 2016 Prerequisite Script is Updated – V1.12
If you are looking for a script to help you install all the prerequisites for Exchange 2016 CU8 and above, I’ve just released my newest version, v1.12, of the script. Currently it is listed on the TechNet Gallery for download. Here is the new and updated menu for the script: You can download the script…
The move object info message is too large. Current size 17,592,186,042,368 MB limit 480 MB
THAT message. Yes THAT message. I received this for a bunch of mailboxes I was moving From Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016. The complete error is confounding and does not make much sense: So what is the solution? The error’s solution is rather simple. There is an existing move request for the mailbox being moved….
Outlook 2016 and Exchange 2010 Public Folder Woes
Upon finishing my last project and stopping to take a look back at the past year or so I’ve realized that most (90%+) involved Office 365. Quite a dramatic change from my previous rate of around 50%. I have worked on a couple of migrations over the past year that revealed that Outlook 2016 is…
PowerShell Scripts for Office 365 Migrations
For the past 3 months I have been hard at work with a client migrating from Lotus Notes to Office 365. Most migrations present some challenges, when coming from a system other than Exchange and migrating users to Office 36, there are additional challenges that present itself. In order to make the migration go smoother…
Azure Cloud Shell Preview
Being a fan of PowerShell and having a lot of customers who are relying on the cloud means that Microsoft’s new ‘Azure Cloud Shell’ brings PowerShell awesomeness to your browser. Yes, I said Browser. To be fair, Microsoft has written up some fairly decent documentation on it and it can be found here – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-shell/overview….
Exchange 2016 PowerShell Book – Second Edition Release
Dave and I have been working hard and we’ve now created a book that covers the breadth of Exchange 2016’s PowerShell features. With this new edition, we’ve added an additional 100+ pages of brand new content. We now cover these topics in-depth (in addition to all the topics in the first edition): Public Folders Security…
